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" I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. "

Henry David Thoreau

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" My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. "

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" If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. "

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" My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again. "

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